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To think people are missing the main point that Brooklyn Beckham is trying to reveal ?

263 replies

Thistooshallpass. · 20/01/2026 15:01

Firstly I know the goings on of this family are not important news and there are more important things to worry about in the world .
But I’m finding it surprising that people are fixating on things like the wedding dress and the dancing . There are a couple of points in his statements when he is clearly saying what I have always believed- that David and Victoria are not a couple as they like to portray . I’ve always thought David’s disdain of her is quite obvious in the way he talks to her and that she appears lost and soulless but intent on preserving the brand .
BB says “ 'The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.”
Then - “ media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.'”

To me it seems obvious what he is hinting at ?

OP posts:
BruFord · 20/01/2026 18:07

EspressoMachiato · 20/01/2026 17:45

Exactly. David's a pussycat compared to the FIL - a ruthless business mogul who eats people like the Beckhams as an amuse-guele.

😂 You’re right.

Brooklyn didn’t know him when he was building his fortune and probably has no idea how tough his FIL is (his daughter is unlikely to either).

25flyby · 20/01/2026 18:09

Thistooshallpass. · 20/01/2026 15:11

Er the point that I made in the opening post ? That the subtext of his statement is that they are not a couple !!

No, that’s not the main point.
The main point was their control.
V and D’s relationship or lack off is YOUR main point of interest.

Couples pretending to be together are fine a dozen, especially rich ones with loads invested.
Much more interesting to understand the dynamics of non contact children especially ones that appeared to be in strong family units.

Hopingforaholiday · 20/01/2026 18:10

The wedding/selling photos to press was hugely grown breaking of its time. I can remember my dad who had zero interest in celebrity gossip looking at my copy of ok magazine, even blokes in pubs were joking about thrones.
The family were then photographed to an extent other celebrities hadn’t done before. They have been a brand for nearly 30 years.

Bangolads · 20/01/2026 18:13

Have you really thought about this that much? I don’t know the ins and outs of my best friend’s marriage and foibles in their relationship - let alone a couple I’ve never met. You need to get out more.

andIsaid · 20/01/2026 18:13

BillieWiper · 20/01/2026 15:30

I don't think anyone's missing the jist of what he's trying to say. It's plain as a sledgehammer to the face.

What I don't get is what was stopping him from just quietly doing a normal job, getting an education and acting and being just a regular person. If all the trappings of celebrity and publicity etc weren't his thing.

He could've just said at 16, I'm going to get an apprenticeship, I'm going to use a diff. surname to make sure there's no favouritism and I want to try and save up for my own little flat, slowly build my career and have a family with a normal young woman. But he didn't because he didn't like the idea of having to do any hard work.

Now he's cosseted by the Peltz billions, he can finally 'speak his truth' and continue to never have to do any hard work. Safe in the knowledge that if his parents cut him off financially he'll still be loaded for life.

It sounds like the culture of the family is that everything is about the brand -there is no family without brand.

I take that to include any jobs/careers/ relationships/ future or even hopes that any one of the teens have needs to fit with the brand. And all of it has to be public - otherwise there is no brand.

He describes a rather intolerant home life.

And it seems to be, that he has stepped out of the painting, and is now looking at it for perhaps the first time.

He says he has been trying to resolve things in private, but his family will not leave his partner alone - planting stories about her etc.

He would recognize their handiwork, having grown up with it.

All of that stands only if he is telling the truth...

He comes across as sad, but also with some courage.

AlliWantIsARoomSomewheeeere · 20/01/2026 18:13

Who knows what the real truth is, but what the reactions show, is that kids born into wealth will always be called "spoilt lil rich kids" if they dare complain about anything! (or something else along those lines). As if they aren't allowed any other problems. Yeah, maybe if your family are quietly rich it would be pretty great, but growing up in the public eye type rich, no thanks. I can't think of anything worse than having the live like that always on show and having to be "on brand". I thought the same about Harry though, I know many Brits LOVE our royals, but can't see how anyone with an ounce of comprehension about what being in the Royal Family would be like in reality, could be jealous. Wealth buys a lot of comfort and positives, but it doesn't wipe out growing up with image obsessed parents!!

LemonTT · 20/01/2026 18:16

People are both acknowledging that there is a lot of misinformation being spread. No one knows these people or what happened.

Anyone speaking confidently about what they know don’t have any insider knowledge other than a lot of gossip. Most of which is being spread by people who have no idea themselves. The tabloids don’t have any insider knowledge they are feeding off hangers on who are making stuff up.

Samdelila · 20/01/2026 18:17

I don’t think he’s hinting that David and Victoria are not a proper couple. He’s saying they’re putting on a fake face for social media and that their supposed friendships with others are often inauthentic. Which I would have thought was already pretty obvious to many of us. If he thinks his parents’ marriage is a total sham then why wouldn’t he just say so?

silverwrath · 20/01/2026 18:19

'Firstly I know the goings on of this family are not important news and there are more important things to worry about in the world.'

Despite this you felt the need to make yet another thread about this bunch of fucking dullards. Who for some bizarre reason are incredibly rich. And now venerated. By Parliament no less.

Humanity is lost.

AllIdoistidyup · 20/01/2026 18:19

Samdelila · 20/01/2026 18:17

I don’t think he’s hinting that David and Victoria are not a proper couple. He’s saying they’re putting on a fake face for social media and that their supposed friendships with others are often inauthentic. Which I would have thought was already pretty obvious to many of us. If he thinks his parents’ marriage is a total sham then why wouldn’t he just say so?

I wouldn't come out and say so. This statement is a threat - leave me alone or else. More info is the "or else".

andIsaid · 20/01/2026 18:20

BruFord · 20/01/2026 18:07

😂 You’re right.

Brooklyn didn’t know him when he was building his fortune and probably has no idea how tough his FIL is (his daughter is unlikely to either).

Brooklyn didn’t know him when he was building his fortune and probably has no idea how tough his FIL is (his daughter is unlikely to either).

Do we want to dwell a moment on how tough DB is? A very competitive man - with enough stories rumbling around over the years about how controlling he is, how dogged, and so on.

He is like the royal men - hiding behind wifey.

In this case she gladly walks out front. In her silk nighty. That she wears to weddings...

AlliWantIsARoomSomewheeeere · 20/01/2026 18:26

BruFord · 20/01/2026 16:20

He has had aot of opportunities to move in famous and wealthy circles but actually his family's fame will have stopped him pursuing a normal job/life etc.

@CleverButScatty Many children of famous people have normal careers though-a couple of Gordon Ramsay’s children have chosen to do this, for example, whereas others have chosen to stay in the public eye.
Wealth gives you immense choice.

Gordon Ramsay made his children stand on their own two feet though. He was very vocal at one point that though they grew up with privileges cos of his hard work and wealth, they wouldn't be living off him forever. One famous example being him flying first class and leaving them in coach. He said he worked his arse off for years before he could afford first class. Some people applauded him and some ripped him apart.
I had a friend who worked for him and said he seems a really decent down to earth guy, despite his on screen persona.

xanthomelana · 20/01/2026 18:27

Louielovecharlotte · 20/01/2026 17:09

Oh come on it was clunky - and grammatical errors - can’t see anyone else wrote it

Look at the rest of his instagram and the way he writes is a totally different style. He uses different vocabulary and it just doesn’t match what was written in that post. I’m not saying that someone took over his instagram and physically typed it for him but he definitely had some help, he talks about his parents and their team so why wouldn’t he have his own team with all the money his in-laws have?

Louielovecharlotte · 20/01/2026 18:30

xanthomelana · 20/01/2026 18:27

Look at the rest of his instagram and the way he writes is a totally different style. He uses different vocabulary and it just doesn’t match what was written in that post. I’m not saying that someone took over his instagram and physically typed it for him but he definitely had some help, he talks about his parents and their team so why wouldn’t he have his own team with all the money his in-laws have?

I’m not on instagram

I don’t know the man but I can’t see that if it was written by a prof or a team as you say they would have posted it with so many grammatical
errors and in this clunky way - he could have said the same in a third of the words - obv it’s not going to be jokey like other posts 🤷‍♀️

HundredMilesAnHour · 20/01/2026 18:31

andIsaid · 20/01/2026 18:20

Brooklyn didn’t know him when he was building his fortune and probably has no idea how tough his FIL is (his daughter is unlikely to either).

Do we want to dwell a moment on how tough DB is? A very competitive man - with enough stories rumbling around over the years about how controlling he is, how dogged, and so on.

He is like the royal men - hiding behind wifey.

In this case she gladly walks out front. In her silk nighty. That she wears to weddings...

David Beckham isn’t in the same toughness league as Nelson Peltz. DB is Jake Paul to NP’s Anthony Joshua.

DB may be more (superficially at least) likeable/popular but Peltz is a self-made billionaire who is immensely powerful and notoriously aggressive. I would not want him as a father-in-law and definitely not as an enemy.

So no pressure Brooklyn. Better keep the missus happy. Or else.

Gahr · 20/01/2026 18:34

Lollylavender · 20/01/2026 17:50

Does anyone ‘like’ them? What’s likeable about a nouveau riche footballer and a ex pop band singer? Genuinely?

I don't think that they are all that well liked at all. David won some points for 'respectfully' standing in the queue to see the Queen lie in state rather than jumping it, but I don't think that they are generally adored. If people side with them, it would more be because of a general disdain for nepo babies than because they love the Beckhams. Which is ironic, considering it is their fault that he is a nepo in the first place.

Lollylavender · 20/01/2026 18:34

AllIdoistidyup · 20/01/2026 18:19

I wouldn't come out and say so. This statement is a threat - leave me alone or else. More info is the "or else".

That’s how I read it. As a threat that he’ll expose more if they don’t stop interfering.

FateAmenableToChange · 20/01/2026 18:34

I think parents using images and videos of their children and babies to make money is abusive and should be illegal. So you’re right OP, he is speaking to a larger point and that so few get it is disturbing. You don’t own your children, you have no right to put them in the public eye without their consent. And you certainly shouldn’t be profiting from it. Sadly these people also appear to have zero shame.

AllIdoistidyup · 20/01/2026 18:38

xanthomelana · 20/01/2026 18:27

Look at the rest of his instagram and the way he writes is a totally different style. He uses different vocabulary and it just doesn’t match what was written in that post. I’m not saying that someone took over his instagram and physically typed it for him but he definitely had some help, he talks about his parents and their team so why wouldn’t he have his own team with all the money his in-laws have?

He did, until right before this got posted.

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/brooklyn-beckham-nicola-peltz-feud-pr-david-victoria-b1267005.html

Brooklyn and Nicola part ways with PR boss amid Beckham feud

The couple have reportedly parted ways with publicist Matthew Hiltzik after seven months

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/brooklyn-beckham-nicola-peltz-feud-pr-david-victoria-b1267005.html

daisychain01 · 20/01/2026 18:39

EspressoMachiato · 20/01/2026 17:17

Their life is a business.
Lots of celebrity couples' and politicians' lives are a business.
Charles and Diana's marriage was a business arrangement.

I think their son should have kept quiet tbh.
His parents both worked hard to give him the life he has.
He's married to a billionaire's daughter thanks to their efforts.
Ungrateful nepo baby.

He does come across as a petulant spoilt brat.

He has been bestowed with more wealth, opportunity and privilege that people could ever dream of. He has resource, choice, options, everything a young man can wish for.

He will never have to worry about paying a mortgage, being sacked from a job and having to draw benefits, not being able to afford to get his kids into a decent school or worry about medical costs.

the trouble with people like him is that he doesn't value what he has because he has never had to lift a finger, graft or feel the stress of everyday life. He lacks resilience and resourcefulness, valuable life skills, just woe is me, poor me.

I can't feel an ounce of empathy towards someone who just has to waft through life. Jeez if he's that screwed up by his parents he can even source the best counselling money can buy. For the next 10 years if that's what he needs!

Vaxtable · 20/01/2026 18:42

Well he could have left home at 18 and made his own way, cutting back on SM and the rest

did he? No he continued to use it to his advantage, so I have no sympathy

KeepPumping · 20/01/2026 18:59

Thistooshallpass. · 20/01/2026 15:01

Firstly I know the goings on of this family are not important news and there are more important things to worry about in the world .
But I’m finding it surprising that people are fixating on things like the wedding dress and the dancing . There are a couple of points in his statements when he is clearly saying what I have always believed- that David and Victoria are not a couple as they like to portray . I’ve always thought David’s disdain of her is quite obvious in the way he talks to her and that she appears lost and soulless but intent on preserving the brand .
BB says “ 'The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.”
Then - “ media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.'”

To me it seems obvious what he is hinting at ?

"To me it seems obvious what he is hinting at ?"

Yes, or he could just be working for the "brand" by getting them headlines?

I always thought they were an actual real loving couple but I don"t really pay too much attention to them so might have missed something.

As I said in another post if he doesn"t like how they choose to conduct themselves he could go "off grid" somewhere and live quite happily?

For me the need to still be in the media at their age and wealth level is the most disturbing aspect, they make money from it but they also seem to actually enjoy all the photographers etc. or is that just a part of the "job" if you want the income stream to continue?

I suppose the problem with going too far off the beaten track or hiding out in some less developed country for someone like BB is the kidnap risk?

Newsenmum · 20/01/2026 19:04

It’s really sad. Children are not products. Things are clearly very wrong in that family.

KeepPumping · 20/01/2026 19:05

daisychain01 · 20/01/2026 18:39

He does come across as a petulant spoilt brat.

He has been bestowed with more wealth, opportunity and privilege that people could ever dream of. He has resource, choice, options, everything a young man can wish for.

He will never have to worry about paying a mortgage, being sacked from a job and having to draw benefits, not being able to afford to get his kids into a decent school or worry about medical costs.

the trouble with people like him is that he doesn't value what he has because he has never had to lift a finger, graft or feel the stress of everyday life. He lacks resilience and resourcefulness, valuable life skills, just woe is me, poor me.

I can't feel an ounce of empathy towards someone who just has to waft through life. Jeez if he's that screwed up by his parents he can even source the best counselling money can buy. For the next 10 years if that's what he needs!

https://www.investopedia.com/warren-buffett-inheritance-mistake-11755062

Why Warren Buffett Believes Leaving Too Much Money to Kids Is a Mistake

Warren Buffett reveals why he’s not leaving too much money to his children.

https://www.investopedia.com/warren-buffett-inheritance-mistake-11755062

CarminaBiryani · 20/01/2026 19:06

I think we ALL know the unspoken truth though?

David Beckham had at least one affair and it has never been admitted. Its an open secret no?

For anyone comparing with the perfect Ramsay clan, Tana Ramsays dad had a secret family.